Nokia Slashes 4000 Jobs Worldwide

We all knew it was coming: when Nokia and Microsoft signed their agreement to bring Windows Phone 7 to Nokia handsets, the end was nigh for Symbian - and all of the developers, engineers, and support staff that Nokia had built up around the flagging mobile OS. Now, Nokia has made good on the bad news and served over 4,000 employees worldwide with pink slips. In addition to letting that staff go, Nokia is divesting itself of Symbian entirely, and handing it off to

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